Trust on the Net [pdf]

The Journal Of The Future SSP June, 2005 Geoffrey W. Bilder geoffrey.bilder@gmail.com Overview • The Internet Trust Anti-Pattern • Escaping The Anti-Pattern • Tapping the Power of Emergent Metadata • What ... Can Publishers Do Now? Trust, reputation, authority and credibility... Publisher: Icon Books ISBN: 184046531X Trust: Local/Global Local Global • Through personal acquaintance • Extends trust to proxy • Sometimes transitive • Proxy transitively extends trust to “strangers” Doesn’t scale Increases systemic risk Trust: Horizontal/Vertical Horizontal Vertical • Amongst equals • Little possibility of coercion • Within established hierarchy (possibly through deference) • Coercion can be used to enforce norms of behavior Not very enforceable Subject to abuse Internet Trust v.s. Scholarly Trust Vertical Horizontal Local Global Internet Trust Scholarly Trust The Internet Trust Anti-Pattern “Internet Trust Anti-Pattern” A. System is started by self-selecting core of high-trust technologists (or   [More...] [Less...]

Doing good do it right - Management Today 

You're keen to implement CSR, but it's a demanding exercise to establish a sound and effective policy that percolates through the entire organisation and shapes everything it does. Mark Vernon and Craig ... Mackenzie offer 20 top tips to put you on the path of righteousness. MANAGEMENT 1. Make sure the CEO gets it. If he or she doesn't, companies will struggle to pay more than lip-service to corporate social resposibility. In this respect, CSR is no different from any substantial corporate activity. For example, at telecoms company Vodafone, CSR is set as one of six board-level, strategic goals. The company's group executive committee, chaired by CEO Arun Sarin, is responsible for policy and performance. Incidentally, there is a serious economic argument to be made for CSR: it doesn't just deliver for the environment, it delivers on the bottom line too. Companies as diverse as the retailer Marks & Spencer, the telco BT, the healthcare specialist Novo Nordisk and the bank HSBC have found th   [More...] [Less...]

Facebook by the Numbers - Mark Zuckerberg - Social Networking 

Active Users in Millions (Registered users who have visited the site in a given month) Zuckerberg's creation … consists of 47,000 college, high school, employee, and regional networks. … handles 600 million ... searches and more than 30 billion page views a month. … is the sixth most-trafficked site in the United States, according to comScore Media Metrix. … is the biggest photo-sharing site on the Web, with, according to comScore, more than 1 billion photos stored on the site and 6 million uploaded daily. … is growing 3% week over week, measured by number of users. The Maturing of Facebook 100,000 age 64+ 310,000 age 45--63 380,000 age 35--44 3 million age 25--34 Unless otherwise noted, all data from Facebook, for the month of February 2007. Age breakdowns are of registered users as of March 15. Facebook Employee Networks CIA CNN (NYSE:TWX) Ernst & Young IBM (NYSE:IBM) IRS Macy's (NYSE:FD) McDonald's (NYSE:MCD) MySpace (NYSE:NWS) Time Inc. Toyota (NYSE:TM) Back to Top | Print this | Send   [More...] [Less...]

63% Of IT Depts Say Web 2.0 Will Impact Their Business - ReadWriteWeb 

A new report from Forrester Research , a company that has been closely following the adoption of web 2.0 and social technologies by businesses, now says that their earlier predications about Web 2.0 in ... the enterprise may have been too timid. Last year, they said that in 2008 I.T. shops would start to take a leadership role in Web 2.0 adoption by business, but this latest report is now debunking the conventional wisdom that I.T. is as skeptical as once thought. Web 2.0 At Work: Acceptence and Concerns The most startling number to come out of this recent study - a survey of 260+ I.T. professionals - is that 63% are now expecting social technologies to impact the business world. Even more interesting is that they feel that the impact will be a positive one - only 3% of respondents viewed Web 2.0 negatively. However, that's not to say they don't have their concerns. They are wary of one thing in particular: 79% are concerned about the risks of unsanctioned use of these tools by employees.   [More...] [Less...]

The Social Bookmarking Faceoff 

Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. The social bookmarking market is in a steady state with two dominant players - del.icio.us and StumbleUpon . The rest of the pack, including Yahoo ... MyWeb, appears to be substantially behind. Will they catch up? In this post we attempt to answer that question. We also take a look at how social bookmarking has evolved since del.icio.us. (even del.icio.us itself has evolved a lot!). We compare the features and approaches of the different companies, to see which has gained popularity and what has become the norm in this space. A short history of social bookmarking The current social web era started with del.icio.us and the advent of social bookmarking. The simple concept of a tag has turned our interactions with the web upside down. The idea of being able to store your bookmarks online, share them with everyone and see what others have bookmarked - triggered the sequence of events that resulted in today's rich and social web ecosyst   [More...] [Less...]

Social Bookmarking Tools - A General Review 

Introduction Because, to paraphrase a pop music lyric from a certain rock and roll band of yesterday, " the Web is old, the Web is new, the Web is all, the Web is you ", it seems like we might have to ... face up to some of these stark realities [ n1 ]. With the introduction of new social software applications such as blogs, wikis, newsfeeds, social networks, and bookmarking tools (the subject of this paper), the claim that Shelley Powers makes in a Burningbird blog entry [ 1 ] seems apposite: " This is the user's web now, which means it's my web and I can make the rules. " Reinvention is revolution it brings us always back to beginnings. We are here going to remind you of hyperlinks in all their glory, sell you on the idea of bookmarking hyperlinks, point you at other folks who are doing the same, and tell you why this is a good thing. Just as long as those hyperlinks (or let's call them plain old links) are managed, tagged, commented upon, and published onto the Web, they represent a   [More...] [Less...]

50 Top Social Bookmarking Sites 

BlinkGeo is a new social news web site for the geospatial community. http://www.blinkgeo.com Stories include information about Google Earth, Google Maps, GPS, Location Based Services (LBS), Geographic ... Information Systems (GIS), and more. Based on the Digg model. Includes RSS feeds for published and upcoming news as well as specific categories. ...and this: http://www.iloggo.com iloggo is an internet desktop. It's a starting page which allows you to visit your most frequently visited sites with a single click. Similar to "Windows" desktop, you can choose icons of your favorites websites and put them on your web dashboard. Now, you just click the icons instead of typing web address... Here's one of the best Dutch social bookmarking sites, TagMos . It is purely focused on the Dutch and Belgium market because it is only in Dutch. Based upon Scuttle but with many custom-made extensions. Not sure if Bluedot allows "you to import contacts from all the major mail services such as GMail a   [More...] [Less...]

Consultation Draft of the Responsible Nano Code available for comment 

( Nanowerk News ) The Working Group has now finished drafting Responsible Nano Code ( Consultation Draft ), and has opened the document to a public consultation. Interested individuals and parties are ... invited to submit comments and suggested amendments or additions to the scope, remit and style of the Responsible Nano Code. The aim of the Responsible Nano Code is to establish a consensus on what constitutes good practice and to provide interim guidance on what organisations can do to demonstrate they are managing nanotechnologies responsibly while the need for further regulation is being evaluated. As such, it is a high-level Principles-based code aimed at the board or governing body of an organisation, not a technical standards document. It is hoped that the Code will contribute to ensuring nanotechnologies achieve their full potential in delivering health, environmental, social and economic benefits at a time when organisations are dealing with technical, social and commercial unce   [More...] [Less...]

Responsible Nanotechnologies Code Consultation Draft – 17 September 2007 [doc]

Corporate social responsibility - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 

[ edit ] Development and analysis The debate about CSR has been said to have began in the early 20th century, amid growing concerns about large corporations and their power [1] . The ideas of charity and ... stewardship helped to shape the early thinking about CSR in the US. Ida Tarbell ’s 1904 work The History of the Standard Oil Company helped lead to the decision of the decision to break up the company on antitrust grounds. Similarly, Upton Sinclair ’s 1906 book The Jungle led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drugs Act and the Meat Inspection Act by the United States Congress . These can be seen as early attempts to mandate socially responsible corporate behavior. The term CSR itself came in to common use in the early 1970s although it was seldom abbreviated. The term stakeholder , meaning those impacted by an organization's activities, was used to describe corporate owners beyond shareholders from around 1989. [2] Many large companies now issue a corporate social responsibility repo   [More...] [Less...]